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<< Our Photo Pages >> Llanfilo Camp - Hillfort in Wales in Powys

Submitted by SumDoood on Wednesday, 22 March 2017  Page Views: 8944

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Llanfilo Camp Alternative Name: Hillis Fort
Country: Wales County: Powys Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Brecon  Nearest Village: Llanfilo
Map Ref: SO113328  Landranger Map Number: 161
Latitude: 51.986547N  Longitude: 3.293062W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : About halfway along the west wall the ditch has been much modified by the setts of many generations of badgers. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A large and strongly defined banked and ditched hillfort in Powys, which occupies a ridge-top summit. It is defined by multiple banks and ditches above the gentler hill-slopes, but has only a single line on the east where the ground falls steeply away.

In plan it is an elongated oval, roughly 336m north-south by 128m. There are well-defined inturned entrances on the north-east and south."

Source: Coflein

There is another defended enclosure 300m to the west, see the nearby sites list below.

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Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : Near to what was probably the northern entrance, damage exposes the construction. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : Looking west from outside the eastern entrance. Again there are indications around a large part of the entrance area of damage caused by modern farming. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : Apparently the main entrance, it's about halfway along the east side with earthworks, possibly quarries, around it, and one considerable embankment leading down the hillside below. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : As at far too many points around this fort the farmer, or his contractors, have cut through the wall. But that does expose the slate-like stone used in construction, most of which, if not dug out from directly below, was probably quarried from an area of much disturbed ground between this fort and the site adjacent to the west. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : The east end of the east-west wall / embankment which roughly halves the site. Coflein suggests it might be less old than the perimeter wall. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : The SE part of the wall seems for a short distance to have been doubled, or perhaps an entrance trackway joined. In the foreground seems to be a neglected spring.

Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : This is next to the southern entrance. Around much of the site there is evidence of far too much avoidable damage for which it seems the landowner / farmer is responsible. Quite possibly these large stones were used to form the sides of a gated entrance.

Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : This seems to have been the southern (SE) entrance.

Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : Along most of the length of the west and south sides of the fort there is at least 50ft of graded bank above the ditch.

Llanfilo Camp
Llanfilo Camp submitted by SumDoood : The trig point near to the centre of the camp, and in the background the distinctive shape of Mynydd Troed, an easily recognisable outlier of the Black Mountains. Over its far shoulder is a route connecting the major South Wales valleys of the Wye and the Usk.

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 315m WSW 251° Weston Camp* Hillfort (SO110327)
 2.0km NNW 339° Tre Durn Wood Fort Hillfort (SO106347)
 2.8km NNW 346° St Mathew's Church Well* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SO107355)
 3.9km ESE 107° Penywyrlod* Chambered Tomb (SO15053156)
 4.2km E 92° Talgarth Hillfort (SO155326)
 4.9km SW 220° Twyn-Llechfaen* Hillfort (SO081291)
 5.2km NNE 19° Bronllys 1 Round Barrow(s) (SO131377)
 5.3km NNE 15° Llyswen Camp Hillfort (SO128379)
 6.1km WSW 250° Bishop Gower's Well* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (SO0551330776)
 6.1km SSE 164° Llangors Crannog* Crannog (SO12872688)
 6.3km ENE 62° Croes-llechau (Bronllys) Long Barrow (SO169357)
 6.4km WNW 291° Twyn-y-Gaer (Llaneglwys)* Hillfort (SO054352)
 6.5km SSW 200° Llanhamlach Standing Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SO08932675)
 6.5km SE 131° Mynydd Troed* Chambered Tomb (SO16142842)
 6.5km NE 45° Pipton* Chambered Tomb (SO16043729)
 6.6km SSW 192° Ty Illtyd* Chambered Cairn (SO09842637)
 6.8km N 10° Boughrood Tumulus* Round Barrow(s) (SO126395)
 6.8km SSW 199° The Cross of Moridic (Llanhamlach)* Ancient Cross (SO089264)
 6.9km N 7° Llangoed Maen Hir* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SO123396)
 6.9km ENE 71° Ffostil South Chambered Long Barrow* Chambered Tomb (SO179349)
 6.9km SE 136° Cockit Hill* Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle (SO16032774)
 6.9km ENE 71° Ffostil North Chambered Long Barrow* Chambered Tomb (SO17913495)
 7.1km NE 44° Spread Eagle Cursus Cursus (SO16283784)
 7.1km NE 42° Spread Eagle Cursus Cursus (SO16203795)
 7.1km ESE 111° Castell Dinas* Hillfort (SO179301)
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Re: Llanfilo Camp by Anonymous on Sunday, 04 February 2024
Maybe talk to the farmer and ask for permission to enter his land, there is no right of way for the general public so effectively you are trespassing on the farmers land
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Re: Llanfilo Camp by SumDoood on Wednesday, 22 March 2017
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Coflein ref: 306046

"A large and strongly defined banked and ditched hillfort occupying a ridge-top summit. In plan it is an elongated oval, roughly 336m north-south by 128m. It is defined by multiple banks and ditches above the gentler hill-slopes, but has only a single line on the east where the ground falls steeply away. There are well-defined inturned entrances on the north-east and south."
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Re: Llanfilo Camp by coldrum on Tuesday, 16 June 2009
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Coflein entry:

http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/306046/details/HILLIS+FORT%3BLLANFILO+CAMP/
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